Junior sister, I really need to control you.

Chapter 86 Old Stories of Xuanzhen Temple

In the afternoon, in Uncle Jiang's bedroom.

Shangguan Ling'er remained crouched in the corner, ignoring Li Yinsheng and Jiang Ningzhi.

Li Yinsheng simply sat down beside the couch and tried to use the wood element energy of the Azure Sky Sword to nourish his uncle's body.

During their previous conversation, he also told his uncle about the events that had occurred on Bamboo Forest Peak, including the fact that Master Lang had given him the Azure Bamboo.

Perhaps because the Azure Sword had been nurtured by him for a hundred years, its wood element energy had become extremely pure and gentle, and the effect of nurturing his body was much better than he had expected.

Of course, what he told his uncle was that the Azure Bamboo given to him by Master Lang itself had such pure wood element energy.

Unfortunately, he is not yet able to separate the Yin and Yang of the Wood element into Jia Wood and Yi Wood. Otherwise, using the Yi Wood element to nourish his uncle's body would likely be even more effective.

While she was recuperating, her martial uncle also told her that the senior Shangguan had brought a method that might help her recover.

Just as Shangguan Ling'er mentioned that this method was related to another Bixiao lineage, she sensed Li Yinsheng's aura and was interrupted.

Li Yinsheng didn't know much about the other lineages, only that there were twelve lineages under the entire Taihao Immortal Sect, and that the lineages were nominally equal to each other.

After his uncle explained it to him, he learned that the relationship between the Bixiao lineage and the Zhengyang lineage was quite distant.

The twelve lineages of the Taihao Immortal Sect belong to three different Dao Palaces.

One Taoist palace governs four lineages. Lineages under the same Taoist palace tend to be closer to each other.

The Zhengyang lineage belongs to the Yin-Yang Dao Palace. The other three lineages in the same palace are the Taiyang lineage, the Taiyin lineage, and the Zhengyin lineage.

The Bixiao lineage belongs to another Shenxiao Dao Palace, which also includes the Yuxiao lineage, Danxiao lineage, and Zixiao lineage.

The Zhengyang lineage and the Bixiao lineage belong to different Daoist palaces, so their relationship is naturally not very close.

Therefore, her uncle was also very worried. No matter what method the Bixiao lineage had to help her restore her cultivation, it probably wouldn't be easy to obtain.

Li Yinsheng was also worried, but he kept reassuring his uncle.

Besides, we should wait for that senior official to tell us the details before we can make a detailed plan.

After Li Yinsheng had treated her uncle's body, Shangguan Ling'er felt much more comfortable than usual, and finally unveiled the glass lamp.

"Oh? You've come to your senses?" Jiang Ningzhi covered her mouth and laughed.

Shangguan Ling'er showed no embarrassment, but looked at Li Yinsheng and Jiang Ningzhi, who were sitting close to each other but not engaging in any intimate behavior, and shook her head with a look of regret.

"Sigh, I've locked myself up for so long, and you two have been behaving so well. It seems we're really not a couple."

Jiang Ningzhi's face, which had already regained its fair complexion, suddenly flushed red: "You dare to trick me!"

Shangguan Ling'er looked smug.

"No, you don't have that kind of brain, and besides, your glass lamp doesn't isolate your own divine sense."

Jiang Ningzhi frowned slightly: "Even if you really think Yin Sheng and I are Daoist partners, you shouldn't use that to trick me. You're not so stupid as to think I'd fall for something like that, are you?"

She stared at Shangguan Ling'er, her eyes narrowing slightly, a smirk playing on her lips: "You're actually genuinely on the defensive, but you're just trying to cover it up with these words, aren't you?"

Shangguan Ling'er's smug expression froze.

"Hmph!" A smug look appeared on Jiang Ningzhi's face.

Li Yinsheng, standing to the side, remained expressionless and indifferent.

Is this the intrigue and power struggles among the great masters? How treacherous!

Although there are three real people in this room, I am actually the only normal person.

Li Yinsheng was filled with emotion.

At the same time, his divine sense fell on his junior sister, who had endured the burning pain of the Blood Refining Pivot and completed her cultivation for the day.

He was sitting in front of the bronze mirror, sweating profusely, looking at his still slender and handsome self in the mirror, and a relieved smile appeared on his face.

Seeing that she was preparing to take a bath, Li Yinsheng withdrew his divine sense and looked at Shangguan Ling'er.

"Ahem, although you may indeed be Ningzhi's junior disciple, please still call me fellow Daoist. Let's keep to our own terms," ​​Shangguan Ling'er said.

Since Shangguan Ling'er insisted, Li Yinsheng didn't hold back and directly addressed her as "fellow Daoist".

Seeing how cooperative Li Yinsheng was, Shangguan Ling'er immediately felt a little closer to him.

"Fellow Daoist Li, when I was taking your age just now—"

She scrutinized Li Yinsheng's flawless face, her gaze becoming more serious: "It seems you've been supplementing your studies with the True Blood Scripture, and you should have already reached the ninth or even tenth level?"

"We're currently on the eleventh floor," Li Yinsheng said frankly.

Since her martial uncle had already said that this fellow Daoist Shangguan was her sworn brother, there was no need to hide it from her.

Moreover, even though he says it's the eleventh floor, he himself isn't sure if it will become the twelfth floor in a while.

"Eleventh level!" Jiang Ningzhi's eyes widened. "Isn't your body refinement a secondary cultivation method?! How can it be eleventh level?!"

Li Yinsheng had already told her about his auxiliary cultivation of the body.

However, the eighth level of the True Blood Manual already gives one the potential to break through to the True Person realm. The eleventh level of the True Blood Manual can hardly be considered a supplementary cultivation method!

"It wasn't even eleven stories before; it was only recently completed," Li Yinsheng explained.

Shangguan Ling'er, however, remained calm and composed, showing no signs of losing her composure.

After all, she had just lost her composure inside the glass lamp.

In fact, the main reason she broke down was when she tested Li Yinsheng's age and discovered that he was actually a body cultivator with extremely strong physical strength!

A twenty-two-year-old Grand Master was something she had never heard of before, let alone a Grand Master who cultivated the body!

Are you even human?

However, upon hearing Jiang Ningzhi mention supplementary cultivation, she raised an eyebrow and looked at Li Yinsheng, asking, "You're supplementing your cultivation with body cultivation?"

Li Yinsheng nodded.

"Nonsense! Utter nonsense!" Shangguan Ling'er corrected her bluntly. "You clearly focus on body cultivation as your primary focus, and supplement it with Qi cultivation!"

"Why do you say that, Fellow Daoist Shangguan?" Li Yinsheng asked, puzzled.

"I recognize the cultivation technique you mainly practice; it's clearly the Qingxuan True Scripture!" Shangguan Ling'er asked bluntly. "The upper limit of the Qingxuan True Scripture is far lower than that of the True Blood Secret Manual. You're telling me you mainly practice the Qingxuan True Scripture?"

Li Yinsheng fell silent.

What Shangguan Ling'er said doesn't seem to have any problems.

Although the Qingxuan True Scripture and the True Blood Secret Scripture are roughly at the same level in terms of overall quality, the difference in their upper limits is indeed enormous.

He had already reached the pinnacle of the Qingxuan True Scripture after two hundred years of cultivation. When he broke through to the Divine Travel Realm, he relied entirely on his accumulated cultivation to achieve the incredible strength that made bricks fly.

In detail, if we were to rank the Qingxuan True Scripture and the True Blood Secret Manual, the Qingxuan True Scripture would be superior to the True Blood Secret Manual before one achieves the status of a True Person.

After one cultivates to become a True Person, both the Pure Profound Scripture and the True Blood Secret Manual have their own unique strengths.

But for him, who is now a Great True Person, the True Blood Secret Manual is undoubtedly far superior to the Pure Profound True Scripture.

Therefore, he couldn't refute what Shangguan Ling'er said. Since the Qingxuan True Scripture was no longer keeping up with him, the True Blood Secret Scripture was now more like his main cultivation, while the Qingxuan True Scripture had become a secondary cultivation.

"What Fellow Daoist Shangguan said is not without reason, but—" Li Yinsheng shook his head helplessly, "I see that the Zhongzhen Temple's cultivation method has been lost, and I cannot find a higher cultivation method than the Qingxuan True Scripture."

"Are you talking about the Precious Mirror Sutra?" Shangguan Ling'er asked. "It's alright, but nothing special. It's not as good as my Five Elements Reincarnation Sutra."

"Each Taoist temple values ​​its own fundamental lineage as much as its own life, and is unwilling to reveal even a fraction of its teachings. But in reality, most of them are just so-so. They are better than some, but not as good as others."

As she spoke, she poked Jiang Ningzhi's cheek: "If you were willing to leave Xuanzhen Temple and join my lineage, you wouldn't have to practice that broken sword scripture all day long, and you might have already achieved the Dharma Form."

"Although the Zhengyang lineage doesn't have many sword cultivators, it's not difficult to find two sword cultivation techniques that are on par with your Baozhao Scripture."

Jiang Ningzhi poked Shangguan Ling'er's face back: "I cultivate sword intent, so cultivation techniques don't affect me that much!"

"The lineage of a Taoist temple cannot be compared with that of a Buddhist lineage, but it is still better than the Qingxuan True Scripture."

Li Yinsheng gave a wry smile and looked at Jiang Ningzhi: "Uncle-Master, why didn't our Xuanzhen Temple make a backup of the temple's heritage?"

"Making a backup of the Baozhao Sutra is meaningless; it only contains the cultivation method and cannot be practiced." She shook her head.

"Huh?" Li Yinsheng was taken aback.

After confirming that the Baozhao Sutra was completely lost, he didn't ask too many questions about it, since it was pointless to be sad about a broken jar.

But now that my uncle is mentioning it, it seems that the Baozhao Sutra is a special kind of cultivation method.

Jiang Ningzhi remained silent for a moment, organized her thoughts, and then said seriously, "Yinsheng, now that you are a Great Master, I should tell you everything about what happened to Xuanzhen Temple and the loss of the Baozhao Scripture."

"So you haven't told him yet?" Shangguan Ling'er said, somewhat surprised. "I know all about these things, how come he doesn't know?"

"Some things, if your cultivation isn't up to par, saying them beforehand will only cause unnecessary trouble and won't do you any good," Jiang Ningzhi shook her head.

Li Yinsheng immediately became serious.

"However, my knowledge is not comprehensive either," Jiang Ningzhi said with a wry smile. "Although I experienced it firsthand, I only escaped death, so there are naturally many things I don't understand."

"This story begins thirty years ago with a great battle between the Zhengyang lineage and the Demonic Heavenly Demon Palace. Although the Demonic Heavenly Demon Palace has a grand name, it is not an exaggeratedly large entity."

"In terms of strength, it should be similar to the Thousand Insect Valley you encountered before, or perhaps even weaker."

"Therefore, for a long time after the war began, the Dharma lineage and the Heavenly Demon Palace were evenly matched and remained deadlocked."

Jiang Ningzhi said, "It wasn't until my Xuanzhen Temple and Yutan Temple joined forces to launch a sneak attack deep into the Heavenly Demon Palace's formation and destroyed a small section of the formation that our lineage was able to use this as a breakthrough and achieve a great victory over the Heavenly Demon Palace."

"Are there any rewards for the lineage?" Li Yinsheng asked curiously.

"Of course they have. Both Xuanzhen Temple and Yutan Temple have been rewarded with many good things," Shangguan Ling'er sighed softly. "It's just a pity that you are not fortunate enough to enjoy them."

Jiang Ningzhi gave a wry smile: "The rewards from the lineage were indeed extremely generous at the time, but the other True Men in the temple and I couldn't pay attention to those things."

"Our focus was on a magical artifact we intercepted while penetrating deep into the Heavenly Demon Palace and destroying its central array."

"A magic weapon?" Li Yinsheng asked curiously. "What kind of magic weapon could be far more important than a reward from a lineage?"

"Calling this a magic weapon is no longer accurate; it's almost half a spiritual treasure," Jiang Ningzhi said softly.

"A spiritual treasure?" Li Yinsheng asked. "Is it something on a higher level than a magic weapon?"

"Yes," Shangguan Ling'er said, "What a True Person uses is a magic weapon, while what an Immortal uses is a spiritual weapon."

"An immortal!" Li Yinsheng immediately became solemn.

He knew that there were real immortals in the lineage, but apart from this legend, he knew nothing more about immortals.

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